James Dodson Barbee,
Methodist clergyman in Tennessee and Alabama and publishing agent, and son
David Rankin Barbee, journalist. Correspondence, including family letters,
notebooks, account books, printed matter, notes, and sermons chiefly relating
to the Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tennessee, and to claims of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, growing out of Civil War property
confiscations, and to the writings and research of David Rankin
Barbee.